Accounts/Office Management Intern - 1 Year FTC

POSITION OVERVIEW

Sports Interactive has a new 1 year internship for an Accounts/Office Management role at our amazing new office at Here East, Stratford. This new role will suit an organised, numeric individual looking at working in a busy 200+ person studio on one of the world’s most famous entertainment football products! We’re seeking someone who is a good communicator, enjoys working with numbers and is highly adaptable. Those with a helpful disposition and who are willing to try new things will do particularly well in our ambitious growing studio. We are an equal opportunities employer who welcomes a diverse team and enjoys working in the community we serve. If you’re looking for an office job with a difference, you’ll be hard placed to find a better place than Sports Interactive.

Please note that this role is office based and is open only to candidates as part of a UK-based further or higher education course (sandwich year).

The successful candidate will be expected to start in early August 2021 on a 12 month fixed term contract. Salary will be paid at the National Living Wage.

Applications without a cover letter will not be accepted. We get hundreds of internship applications, take the time to tell us why you would love to work at Sports Interactive.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the smooth running of our amazing studio building and our large number of remote workers
• Assist the accounts function: budgeting, forecasting, reconciliations
• Help with creation of purchase orders and expense claims
• Run month-end reports & forecasts for the team
• Create interesting new ways to present our financial information
• Engage with team members to capture project allocation data
• Perform administrative tasks as needed
• Help with the organisation & scheduling of meetings
• Be the first line of contact for the landlord’s front of house team
• Liaise with building management
• Take a dynamic role in organising studio events and activities
• Support our variety of internal teams on delivering their projects

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Organised and reliable
• Proactive “can do” attitude
• Personable manner
• Student definition (ie. sandwich/placement year student in full-time higher education)
• Interest in numbers – ie. accounting, statistics, data modelling, etc.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills a must.
• Interest or experience in Football Manager, football, gaming and technology is not required but please tell us if you are!

STUDIO OVERVIEW

Sports Interactive (SI) is the world’s leading developer of football management simulations through its Football Manager series of games. Founded in 1994 and now based in East London’s booming technology hub at Here East in Stratford, SI, as a continually successful and profitable company, is now looking to expand its full-time staff as it pushes out across both existing and emerging gaming platforms.

SI’s games have enjoyed an unparalleled history of commercial and critical success, with 12 of its creations among the UK’s Top 20 fastest-selling PC games of all time and five in the UK’s top 20 best-selling PC games of all time. Sports Interactive became a wholly owned subsidiary of SEGA in 2006.The studio is a vibrant environment, full of talented and dedicated people with drive, passion and creativity, who enjoy working within a close-knit team as part of a lively, self-motivated and forward-thinking company.

Sports Interactive looks after its staff’s well-being with a flexible working schedule that makes the studio a relaxed and friendly place to work. We’re also very proud of being parent-friendly and having high staff tenure (40% have worked here for over 10 years). Further information on Sports Interactive and its games is available on the SI website, www.sigames.com.

This job description is an accurate reflection of the duties and responsibilities of the post as at the time of writing but will be changed from time to time as the job is a career development job which will be adjusted according to the progress of the job holder. It does not form part of the contract of employment.